Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
How to Write a Love Story
The Library of Amorlin (The Age of Beasts, #1)
The Book Tour
The Bookstore Diaries
Son of Nobody
The Adjunct
Booked at Midnight (Midnights on the Square #2)
The Sisters of Book Row
All Booked Up
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Eine Seite noch: Warum Lesen uns so glücklich macht - Von der Autorin des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers "Das große Los" - Meike Winnemuth ist zurück! (German Edition)
The Astral Library
This Book Made Me Think of You
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
How to Write a Love Story
The Ghostwriter
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Book Witch
The Bookstore Diaries
Whisper Sweet Nothings (Rosewood River, #6)
The Busybody Book Club
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
Any Trope but You
Without a Clue
The Paris Library
Read Between the Lies
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel FrederickThe Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina BivaldThe Reading Group by Elizabeth NobleThe Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Book Clubs in Fiction
126 books — 41 voters
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgeThe Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganThe Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Traveling Libraries
118 books — 27 voters

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Books about Books and Libraries
838 books — 413 voters
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMatilda by Roald Dahl
[ATY 2023] Books are Important!
461 books — 151 voters

30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyMatilda by Roald DahlBookishly Ever After by Mia  PageA Storybook Wedding by K.J. MiccichePeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Book lovers & Bookworms
16 books — 14 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84 Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books on Books: metacovers
387 books — 104 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Reading List
Book Lovers
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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